Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Corvallis and Eastern Railroad records
- Dates:
- 1893-1911
- Abstract:
- Consists of accounting records for the railroad.
- Extent:
- 1 boxes + 3 oversize boxes
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Corvallis and Eastern Railroad records, MS 122, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Consists of accounting records for the railroad including balance sheets of general ledger (form 141), cash receipts and disbursements, a betterments account ledger, a station agent's book, bills collectable, and an interline car service account. Also includes train orders.
- Biographical / historical:
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Corvallis and Eastern Railroad was incorporated December 15, 1897. This road consisted of roughly 141 miles extending easterly from Yaquina, on the Oregon coast, via Corvallis to Idanha, Oregon. It was built by predecessor companies between 1877 and 1890. These companies starting with the earliest were Willamette Valley & Coast Rail Road [and the] Oregon Central & Eastern Railroad Company.
Through stock ownership the Corvallis & Eastern came under control of the Southern Pacific Company in 1907, but operated its own organization from about January 24, 1898 until formally sold to the Southern Pacific Company on July 1, 1915. The road had seven locomotives of which three went into the SP roster, the balance being scrapped by the SP without renumbering.
Various sections of the former C&E have been abandoned: Albany to Shelburn, thirteen miles, in 1930; Gates to Idanha, about twenty-one miles, in 1949; Altree (near Toldeo) to Yaquina, 7.7 miles, in 1937. The Corvallis & Eastern was dissolved on January 13, 1916.
[Guy Dunscomb, A CENTURY OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC STEAM LOCOMOTIVES, 1862-1962 (Modesto, California: 1967), pp. 377-378]
- Acquisition information:
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Southern Pacific Railroad, New York Collection
Gift of Norman Arntz, 1992 [Train order book]
- Processing information:
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Items forming this collection originally came from MS 10, MS 405, MS 1.133 [folder 5]
- Arrangement:
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Arranged chronologically
- Physical location:
- Statewide Museum Collections Center
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Financial accounting
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-05-05 22:09:05 +0000 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research by appointment. Contact Library Staff
- Terms of access:
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Copyright has not been assigned to the California State Railroad Museum. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the CSRM Library & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the CSRM as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Corvallis and Eastern Railroad records, MS 122, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.
- Location of this collection:
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111 I StreetSacramento, CA 95814, US
- Contact:
- (916) 323-8073